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Ponti said he did “not know why” the team was held, “probably because we are Israelis.”

He added that despite traveling for 36 hours and the complication, “we are trying to keep up a good mood.”

Israel’s General Security Service had issued a prior warning to the team not to attend the competition in Morocco, because they would not allow a security detail to accompany them, but the Judo Association in Israel decided to attend anyway.